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Gary McNair

Gary McNair is a playwright, director and performer based in
Glasgow.

His aim is to make work that will entertain and challenge
audiences in equal measures.

After graduating with first class honours in Contemporary
Theatre Practice from the RSAMD (now RCS) in 2007, he has produced
work with and for many of Scotland's major theatre companies, and
his work has been translated into several languages and performed
around the world.

His most recent work includes A Gambler's Guide to
Dying, which enjoyed a successful run at the Traverse Theatre
during the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show received huge
critical acclaim, was the recipient of a Fringe First and the
Holden Street Theatre awards, and was featured in the BBC's
best solo shows of the Fringe. It went on international tour in
Australia in February 2016.

Of Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand Up Comedian,
The Scotsman said "it's difficult to imagine these vital
questions about comedy, masculinity, hierarchy and cruelty being
handled more skillfully, in such a short span, or with such a sense
of self-questioning irony, from a writer and performer who knows
his power to make audiences suspend disbelief, and who mistrusts
and challenges that power, every inch of the way."

Square Go (2018 The Traverse, written with Kieran
Hurley)
Locker Room Talk (2017 The Traverse)
After The Cuts (2015 Òran Mór)A Gambler's Guide To Dying (2015 The Traverse)The War On Christmas (2014 The Arches)How To Choose? (2014 Trigger)Donald Robertson is Not A Stand Up Comedian (2013
National Theatre of Scotland/ The Arches/ The Traverse)What You Don't Know... (2013 Trigger)Born To Run (2012 Òran Mór/The Traverse)Count Me In (2011 National Theatre of
Scotland/The Citizens/ The Traverse)How Soon is Nigh? (2010 The Arches/ The
Traverse)Crunch (2010 Òran Mór/ National Theatre of Scotland)

AWARDS:

Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award 2015 for A
Gambler's Guide To Dying
Winner: The Holden Street Theatre Award 2015 for A
Gambler's Guide To Dying
Winner: TheEdinburghArt Club Flying Artichoke Award 2014
for Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand Up Comedian
Winner: The Arches Platform 18 Award For New Work 2010
for How Soon Is Nigh?
Winner: The Avrom Greenbaum Players Award 2007 at the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland
Nominated:The Carol Tambor Best Of Edinburgh Award 2012
for Born To Run